It's alive! Or contains carbon!

[pyat]

velvetpage bought some unrefined salt. Its packaging describes it as "organic."

Organic salt?

Organic salt?

Pardon me, while my inner tech writer fantasizes about hunting down and killing a marketing copywriter.

Comments

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

My husband who took chemical technology says that organic means no chemicals were used in the processing. So, yeah, it's organic.

[catsarah.livejournal.com]

because sodium chloride is no chemical ;)

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Obviously, everything is made of chemicals. But in the processing of the salt it isn't treated with chemicals.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure, though, that "organic" is simply being used as a sort of "healthy" adjective, rather than a technical term.

[catsarah.livejournal.com]

unless it's iodized and then it is!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I think the sea salt stuff lacks iodine, but they do something to it to remove the unpalatable chemicals that exist naturally in sea salt.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

But... some chemicals are organic! And they DO use chemicals to process sea salt for "organic" sea salt!

[mrs-dm.livejournal.com]

Sure they use chemicals to process sea salt. Dangerous ones too, like dihydrogen oxide;)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! That stuff eats through iron, and turns copper green!